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1 online resource (xxiii, 331 pages) : color illustrations |
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| Contents |
Introduction : The Retreat from the Critical / Margaret Thornton. |
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Part I: Theorising the modern university. Disinterested Scholars or Interested Parties? The Public's Investment in Self-interested Universities / Hannah Forsyth -- Critical theory and the new university : reflections on time and technology / Peter Beilharz -- Gendered hierarchies of knowledge and the prestige factor : how philosophy survives market rationality / Fiona Jenkins -- Part II: Markets, managers and mandarins. What's to be explained? and is it so Bad? / Geoffrey Brennan -- Higher education 'markets' and university governance / Tony Aspromourgos -- Transforming the public university : market citizenship and higher education regulatory projects / Kanishka Jayasuriya -- The state of the universities / Glenn Withers. |
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Part III: Education for the 'real world'. The modern university and its transaction with students / Nigel Palmer -- Markets, discipline, students : governing student conduct and performance in the university / Bruce Lindsay -- 'Selling the dream': law school branding and the illusion of choice / Margaret Thornton and Lucinda Shannon -- Part IV: Conditions of knowledge production. Disciplining academic women : gender restructuring and the labour of research in entrepreneurial universities / Jill Blackmore -- Functional dystopia : diversity, contestability and new media in the academy / Jenny Corbett, Andrew MacIntyre and Inger Mewburn. |
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Part V: Telling it how it is. A Design for Learning? A Case Study of the Hidden Costs of Curriculum and Organisational Change / Diane Kirkby and Kerreen Reiger -- 'Smoking guns': reflections on truth and politics in the university / Judith Bessant -- Part VI: University futures? Seeking the necessary 'resources of hope' in the neoliberal university / Jane Kenway, Rebecca Boden and Johannah Fahey. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-331). |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. |
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English. |
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Education, Higher -- Australia -- Evaluation.
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Higher education and state -- Australia.
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Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- Australia.
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Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Australia.
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Educational change -- Australia.
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Enseignement supérieur -- Australie -- Évaluation.
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Enseignement supérieur -- Politique gouvernementale -- Australie.
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Enseignement supérieur -- Aspect économique -- Australie.
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Enseignement -- Réforme -- Australie.
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Universities.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Education, Higher -- Economic aspects
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Education, Higher -- Evaluation
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Educational change
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Higher education and state
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Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Australia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRv8PPH7gCqhkJ8DK8bM
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study. |
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politics. |
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social sciences. |
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students. |
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university. |
| Added Author |
Thornton, Margaret (Margaret Rose), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thornton, Margaret. Through a glass darkly 9781925022131 (DLC) 2014481348 (OCoLC)914256740 |
| ISBN |
9781925022148 (electronic bk.) |
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1925022145 (electronic bk.) |
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9781925022131 (pbk.) |
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1925022137 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
10.26530/OAPEN_515938 doi |
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AU@ 000053726457 |
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AU@ 000058200955 |
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DEBBG BV044058399 |
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GBVCP 869966715 |
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GBVCP 1008662623 |
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AU@ 000054013984 |
